the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner participate together sergio masacurrent Minister of Economy and presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria, of the act of recovering the Skyvan PA-51 plane, which was used in the “Flights of Death” of the last military dictatorship.
The meeting began shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Monday at the Jorge Newbery Metropolitan Airport from the city of Buenos Aires and it is the first public appearance that both have made together since the closing of lists that took place last Saturday and during which the presidential candidacy of the head of the Economy portfolio was made official.
Skyvan PA-51, the plane from which the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and the French nuns were thrown into the sea
At the beginning of the act, a video was shared that President Alberto Fernández recorded before traveling to Brazil. In it, the president stated that he was able to see the aircraft before leaving for the neighboring country. “We are working so that this plane returns as a testimony of the Argentine tragedy”manifested.
And he added: “It struck me a lot to think why it is due to that plane. How much death that plane carried, you will get lives towards the death that plane carried. I am at a distance with you, ratifying my commitment to truth and justice.”
Sergio Massa: “We are contributing to memory”
“I think it is a way to help put one more grain of sand on a path that in Argentina has not ended. The idea of denialism, the idea of violence in politics as a mechanism for conflict resolution in some way reminds Argentina’s darkest past”, began Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who referred to the plane as a “symbol of Argentina’s darkness”.
In this sense, he stated that it is important “to make it visible worldwide and to continue making visible the idea that in Argentina we can never again go through the pages of the darkness of our history.” In this regard, I thought that “it will allow all Argentines to consolidate the democratic path.”
Regarding the recovery of the plane, the presidential candidate affirmed that “we are contributing to the memory.” “In the search for truth, we also build truth on the validation of the tests. And above all things in the construction of a path and a journey of a firm democratic system and a commitment as a society with democratic values, with freedom and with the dreams of justice of thousands of Argentines, we will be able to consolidate the path of justice,” he continued.
“The brick that we put today may be very small, but it allows us to build a wall for all those who want to tear down Argentina’s rights. Let’s build together the wall that sets limits for those who instead of rights want to take away rights from Argentina. That is our task, every day in the administration and in the coming months touring every corner of Argentina”, added Massa.
Likewise, the head of the Palacio de Hacienda showed that it was the vice president who invited him to “get involved” with the recovery of the plane. “We met with Cristina in the office and told me ‘You have to get involved in an issue that Oscar Parrilli has to do with the recovery of an airplane that is a symbol in the recovery of the value of memory, truth and justice'”, Massa explained.
Cristina Kirchner: “We need a law of denialism”
After the minister’s words, the speech of the vice president began, who affirmed that “to win you have to always bet”, after saying that Sergio Massa usually bets things. “If there is too much will, it can become voluntarism. It’s okay to bet, because to win you always have to bet,” she points out.
Added to this, he referred to the request for a law of denial, indicating that “Argentina did not need it until 2015 because there was no Argentine who denied what had happened.” “It is incredible that something that is recognized as a tragedy of humanity throughout the world, there are people in our country who still deny what has happened,” he continued.
And he added: “Starting in 2015, a task began with enormous media support, the same one they had from 1976 to 1983 to do the things they did. Without the complicity of the hegemonic media, it would have been impossible for the things that happened to happen. happened in our country.”
In this sense, he remarked “we need a law of denialism”, at the same time that he said that “denialism is a crime.” “I don’t want to talk about the horror and the tragedy because there has been excess in the Argentine Republic. The past cannot be changed, but it serves to learn from it and get the best things out of it. Here we are remembering political militants who disappeared for the ideas they they had,” they said.
Likewise, he maintained that “if you are a member and you don’t screw around, nothing happens.” However, he remarked that “if you are like me, who is fighting for income distribution, you don’t want the debt, something could happen to you there.” “Today we live in a democracy with some limitations,” he stated.
Another of the issues that he referred to was the closing of the lists, before which they excluded: “A lot of surprise, right?” He also referred to the results of the 2021 elections, to what he thought “the most important parliamentary defeat of Peronist democracy where we lost our majority and our own quorum in the Senate for the first time.”
And he added: “As a political militant, I argued that it was necessary to build a list of unity that would allow us to address the very serious problems that society has. When I see the opposition, responsible for the indebtedness and the transfer of the IMF, fight between two lists to to see who puts in more bullets or who gets more right, it is not to say that they are bad or good, but rather foolish”.
“We have a problem of need, of not noticing what is happening in the country and what the country needs. That is why I warned that a list of unity was necessary,” he continued, criticizing the president, whom he accused of “flagging himself for doing STEP “. In tune with the importance of unity, the vice president recounted that “fifteen Argentine governors, all from our political space, had requested a list of unity”, to which “the mayors of the province of Buenos Aires” later joined.
Added to this, he criticized Victoria Tolosa Paz and Daniel Scioli for presenting their candidacies: “Until last Friday, 24 hours before the list closed, I used the Minister of Social Development of our government proposing internal elections to the governor of the province of Buenos Aires. And I use our ambassador in Brazil with all the rights in the world, I’m talking about the consequences of this, for president”.
He also explained that “some suggested that he speak to Daniel Scioli.” “Not even with a 45 in my head did they make me speak to anyone either to go up or down. I deeply respect the decisions of each person. You can’t force people to do something they don’t want or go to a place they don’t want. It is the responsibility of each leader,” he said.
In this regard, prior to the closing of the lists, the vice president said that she had told Massa that he could be a candidate “if there is a list of unity, supported by governors, mayors.” However, she had clarified that “if there is a STEP, our force will go with its own candidate. It will go with Wado de Pedro who was our candidate if there had been a STEP.”
Regarding the candidacy of Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, the ex-president praised the Minister of the Interior, who thought that “it comes from the tragedy in Argentina.” “He went out into the street to be told where his parents were and, later, to punish those who had disappeared. That is Wado’s story,” said the vice president.
“I want to rescue because their values, their conviction, their belonging to a collective project that goes where it serves the project, is very few. Very few, I would tell them,” he added.
“We are going to participate in the act of recovering the Skyvan PA-51 plane, used for the ‘flights of death’ during the last civil-military dictatorship”, the vice president announced via Twitter and specified that “she will be present at the event together with the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, who carried out the international efforts that made it possible”.
The former president said that the act “This is a claim from the relatives of the victims of the ‘Santa Cruz'”who are present, and recorded that based on the flight sheets it was verified that the aircraft was used on December 14, 1977 to throw the victims of the Church of the Holy Cross into the sea.
Those victims included Azucena Villaflor, Esther Ballestrino de Careaga and María Eugenia Ponce de Bianco, members of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and French nuns Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet.
How is the plane of the “flights of death” repatriated from the US
In this sense, the vice president will highlight that the Ministry of Economy was the entity that “bought the ship and organized its transfer from the United States” based on the request of the relatives of the victims. Subsequently, the plane “will be located on the premises of the former ESMA, where it will serve as a contribution to the construction of the Report on State Terrorism. Memory, Truth and Justice.”
As said, this is about the Massa’s first appearance with CFK after his presidential candidacy was announced of Union for the Homeland in the company of the chief of staff, Agustín Rossi, as a pre-candidate for vice president.
The official Massa-Rossi formula was announced just thirty hours before the lists closed, thus achieving what was described as a “unit formula” on a ticket that will not be headed by Kirchnerism. The resounding turn in the political strategy took place after the Wado-Manzur formula did not convince even their own.
In this way, the negotiations advanced and President Alberto Fernández communicated by telephone with his vice with the aim of reaching a truce and putting an end to the inmates of the ruling party. Among other things, the president asked choose the vice-presidential candidate and? the list is open to deputies for the province of Buenos Aires.
In turn, the president also stated that I did not want vetoes for the figures that he proposed. This agreement led to the addition of Rossi to the formula and the appearance of two names on the list of legislators who will eventually enter Congress at the end of the year: Santiago Cafiero and Victoria Tolosa Paz.
Three days after lowering it to negotiate with Sergio Massa, Alberto Fernández traveled with Daniel Scioli to Brazil
Immediately afterwards, the president contacted the ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Scioli, who his face-to-face candidacy has fallen with the aim of preserving the unity of the political space. The latter did not obtain another position either, so he will be left out of the Unión por la Patria campaign.
“We celebrate the unity of our political space and we wish success to our candidates for president, Sergio Massa and vice president, Agustín Rossi, who expressed the consensus of the forces that we integrate,” said the former chief of staff, Juan Manzur.
Wado de Pedro, who did not make his presidential candidacy official but heads the list of senators in the PBA, initially remained silent and then stated: “The country faces great challenges. I have always been a militant and I will continue to contribute to this project from the place that touches mewithout personalism or egoism”.
Juan Grabois will be a candidate for President and there will be STEP against Sergio Massa
The formula appeared to several Kirchnerista leaders, given that this does not include any K figures on the presidential ballot. In any case, the space chose to maintain verticalism in public, although internal conflicts are expected to deepen in the coming weeks.
Without going any further, the social leader Juan Gabrois was one of those who did not adopt the formula, which is why he decided to go ahead with his face-to-face candidacy, in search of “represent the decimated generation”by the hand of the sociologist Paula Abal Medina.
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